This paper reports results for the University of Maryland’s participation in CLEF-2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval track. Techniques that were tried include: (1) document ex...
This paper investigates the combination of word-alignments computed with the competitive linking algorithm and well-established IBM models. New training methods for phrase-based st...
Research in the speaker recognition community has continued to address methods of mitigating variational nuisances. Telephone and auxiliary-microphone recorded speech emphasize th...
Douglas E. Sturim, William M. Campbell, Najim Deha...
We propose a simple training regime that can improve the extrinsic performance of a parser, given only a corpus of sentences and a way to automatically evaluate the extrinsic qual...
Jason Katz-Brown, Slav Petrov, Ryan T. McDonald, F...
Enriching speech recognition output with sentence boundaries improves its human readability and enables further processing by downstream language processing modules. We have const...
Yang Liu, Nitesh V. Chawla, Mary P. Harper, Elizab...